Definition von dead (8) im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- Book of the Dead
- The ancient Egyptian funerary text
- Dead Sea
- A lake in the Middle East, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest point on Earth
- Dead Sea apple
- a fruit, supposed to dissolve into smoke or ashes when plucked
The man who makes himself a slave to gold is a miserable wretch indeed, winning for his prize the Dead Sea apple - golden without, but ashes within.
- Dead Sea apples
- plural form of Dead Sea apple
- beat a dead horse
- To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason
After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.
- beaten a dead horse
- Past participle of beat a dead horse
- beats a dead horse
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat a dead horse
- brain-dead
- Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity
- brain-dead
- Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy
- clinically dead
- In a state in which usual medically observable vital signs—such as respiration, heartbeat, and corneal reflex—are not present, but from which patients are sometimes revived
Twelve dogs have been brought back to life with no signs of permanent damage after being clinically dead for two hours.
- dead
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia)
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- dead
- No longer living
All of my grandparents are dead.
- dead
- Exactly right
He hit the target dead in the centre.
- dead
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- dead
- Without emotion
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- dead
- Full and complete
dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence.
- dead
- to prevent by disabling; stop
What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”.
- dead
- singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- dead
- No longer used or required
Is this beer glass dead?.
- dead
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat
dead air; a dead glass of soda.
- dead
- Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly
That’s dead sure!.
- dead
- Stationary; static
the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.
- dead
- Completely inactive; without power; without a signal
Now that the motor’s dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- dead
- Broken or inoperable
That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- dead
- So hated that they are absolutely ignored
He is dead to me.
- dead
- Exact
dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level.
- dead
- Unproductive
dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.
- dead
- Not in play
Once the ball crosses the foul line, it’s dead.
- dead
- plural Those who have died
Have respect for the dead.
- dead 'n' buried
- Contraction of dead and buried
- dead against
- Unequivocally and intransigently opposed to
The person who was most dead against playing the game was Stuart,” says Mick. “But he’s definitely a lot more relaxed about it these days.”.
- dead air
- An unintended interruption in a radio broadcast during which there is no sound; a similar interruption of a television broadcast in which there is neither sound nor a video signal
- dead and buried
- Moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten
- dead as a dodo
- Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead
- dead as a dodo
- That has become out of date
- dead as a doorknob
- Entirely, unquestionably or certainly dead
I found the mouse who lived in our wall, lying on his back with his feet in the air—as dead as a doorknob.
- dead as a doornail
- Unquestionably dead. Used for both inanimate objects and once living beings
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door–nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin–nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door–nail.
- dead asleep
- Sleeping in a deep sleep
- dead ball
- The ball when dead and out of play
- dead balls
- plural form of dead ball
- dead bat
- The bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground
- dead bat
- To play the ball with a dead bat
- dead bird
- a ball which falls over the infielders' heads for a hit as if it were a bird shot by a hunter
Jones got on board with a dead bird to start the innning.
- dead calm
- A perfectly flat sea with no waves
- dead cat bounce
- A temporary recovery in the price of an instrument whose price has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run
- dead center
- The position of the crank of a piston when it is in line with the connecting rod
- dead centre
- Alternative spelling of dead center
- dead cert
- practically guaranteed outcome
It's a dead cert that United will beat City in the cup.
- dead code
- instructions that, when executed, have no effect on the running of the program
- dead code
- code that exists in the source, but that will never be executed
Many software projects contain much dead code in the form of deprecated functions.
- dead donkey
- In journalistic jargon, a news item of no real significance, usually of whimsical or sentimental nature, placed at the end of a news bulletin or in a newspaper as filler. A dead donkey can often be removed from the programme or publication if a more significant story needs extra time or space
- dead drop
- a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet
- dead duck
- A project that is doomed to failure from the start
The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck.
- dead duck
- One who is in serious danger or trouble
She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!.
- dead ducks
- plural form of dead duck
They are dead ducks if they are still in the car when it explodes!.
- dead end
- A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end
That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
- dead ends
- plural form of dead end
- dead first
- First, especially first place in a competition
The Rams, meanwhile, finished dead first in last year's NFL Draft.
- dead giveaway
- Something that discloses, usually unintentionally, a fact or an intention
Instead of slowing down his arm when he throws it — a dead giveaway to hitters — Igawa had better arm action, Eiland said.
- dead heat
- a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent
Polls indicated a dead heat for the office of dog catcher.
- dead heats
- plural form of dead heat
- dead horse
- rhyming slang for sauce
- dead horse
- The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages) the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks
- dead ice
- Former glacier ice that is not longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving anymore and getting covered with sediments
- dead in the water
- Doomed; unable to succeed
- dead key
- A special modifier key used to attach a specific diacritic to a letter previously typed
- dead keys
- plural form of dead key
- dead language
- a language which no longer has any native speakers
- dead languages
- plural form of dead language
- dead last
- Finishing in last place in a competition or (in sports) the standings, often by a considerable margin to the next-to-last-place finisher or after an exceptionally poor showing or season
- dead leg
- an injury caused when a player receives a hard knock on the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone
- dead letter
- A law that is no longer enforced
- dead letter
- An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed
- dead letter office
- the postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered
- dead level
- Absolutely horizontal or zero slope
- dead link
- An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable
- dead links
- plural form of dead link
- dead load
- The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it
- dead man walking
- Someone who is about to die; someone condemned
- dead man's brake
- A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released
- dead man's brakes
- plural form of dead man's brake
- dead man's hand
- An ace and an eight as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
- dead man's hand
- Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens
- dead man's hand
- A pair of aces and a pair of eights, in a player's hand
- dead man's switch
- a switch that automatically stops a machine or vehicle after a set period of inactivity from the operator
- dead marine
- an empty beer bottle
- dead meat
- Someone in danger of death or severe punishment
We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking.
- dead meat
- A corpse
- dead media
- Media formats which are no longer used because they have become outmoded
- dead men
- The ends of reefs left flapping instead of being tucked out of sight when a sail has been furled
- dead men tell no tales
- Once someone is dead, they can no longer communicate, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him/her quiet
- dead metaphor
- A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal, e.g. "electric current" (electricity was at first thought to be analogous to water). Not to be confused with stale metaphor (a type of cliché), although it often is
- dead of night
- Middle of the night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
- dead on
- exactly at
The train arrived dead on 2 o'clock.
- dead on arrival
- found to be dead upon the arrival at hospital
- dead on arrival
- Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS), or the police
- dead or alive
- Either dead or alive
- dead or alive
- Used to indicate someone is being sought for some kind of punishment or reprimand, and that (s)he may be killed in the process of finding, as if this was reasonable punishment
- dead president
- A piece of U.S. paper currency
- dead presidents
- Money
- dead presidents
- plural form of dead president
- dead reckoning
- A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled to a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR
- dead ringer
- Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another
He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.
- dead ringers
- plural form of dead ringer
- dead run
- To come as fast as one can, often in a harried state
When she saw smoke coming from the kitchen, the old woman came in on the dead run to remove the burned loaf of bread from the oven.
- dead set
- By extension, a determined effort
I might not graduate first in my class, but I'll make a dead set at it.
- dead set
- The rigid pose a hunting dog assumes when pointing out game to a hunter
The judge at the dog show took points off the Irish setter's dead set because its right ear twitched a few times.
- dead set
- unswervingly dedicated; resolutely determined
The governor is dead set against the concealed weapons permit legislation and will veto it even if it costs her the re-election.
- dead set against
- Completely opposed, with no possibility of a change of mind
I am dead set against letting the dog sleep in anyone's bedroom.
- dead sets
- plural form of dead set
- dead sleep
- The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern
Until the close of the early modern era, Western Europeans on most evenings experienced two major intervals of sleep bridged by up to an hour or more of quiet wakefulness. The initial interval of slumber was usually referred to as “first sleep,” or, less often, “first nap” or “dead sleep.”.
- dead soldier
- An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage
When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier.
- dead soldiers
- plural form of dead soldier
- dead space
- Air that is inhaled by the body in breathing, but does not partake in gas exchange
- dead space
- Picture information that is either masked off or cropped out of viewing area, whether at the top or bottom, or to the sides
- dead sticking
- Landing a normally powered aircraft without power
- dead tired
- Very tired; completely exhausted
- dead to rights
- With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively
Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty.
- dead to the world
- Unconscious
Simon hit him from behind on the back of his head. The size of his punch was enough to knock even the toughest senseless. Simon's victim fell to the deck. . . . There he lay, dead to the world.
- dead to the world
- Sound asleep
However, he slept right through the night, and was still dead to the world when I slipped out.
- dead to the world
- Without social relationships or communication; without emotional or tangible bonds to others
During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.
- dead tree
- A tree that is still standing, but no longer alive. (compare: log, stump)
- dead tree
- made of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative
It used to be that SuSE Linux was available in personal and professional; editions, and that the Pro edition came with additional dead tree documentation.
- dead tree
- A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper
come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.
- dead tree edition
- Paper version of a publication that can be found online
dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical.
- dead tree editions
- plural form of dead tree edition
- dead trees
- plural form of dead tree
- dead water
- The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter
- dead week
- In a college or university, the week immediately preceding finals week
- dead weight
- unremitting heavy weight that does not move
- dead weight
- that which is useless or excess; that which slows something down
She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.
- dead white European male
- Any of various white male historical figures in art and culture seen to represent racism, sexism, etc. ingrained into Western education
- dead white European males
- plural form of dead white European male
- dead wood
- Personnel no longer contributing to an organization
- dead-air space
- A sealed airspace in a cavity wall
- dead-end
- The end of a road, (or by extension), the end of any event
Mary realised her relationship with Jim had hit a dead-end.
- dead-end
- To come to a dead-end
Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!.
- dead-end
- Going nowhere; blocked
a dead-end job.
- dead-in-shell
- When the embryo in an egg develops part way but dies without hatching
- dead-president
- Attributive form of dead presidents, noun
I want some dead-president action, you one-armed bandit!.
- dead-red
- A four-seam fastball
The pitch was dead-red.
- dead-set
- Alternative spelling of dead set
- dead-tree
- Alternative spelling of dead tree
- drawing dead
- Unable to win a particular hand, no matter what the remaining community cards are
- drop dead
- to die suddenly
- drop dead
- an angry expletive
- drop-dead
- very; impressive or spectacular
My date was drop-dead gorgeous!.
- dry as a dead dingo's donger
- Very thirsty
- dry as a dead dingo's donger
- Very dry, extremely dry
- flog a dead horse
- To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more
- flog a dead horse
- To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period
- from my cold, dead hands
- A statement that one will not allow something (most often a firearm or other weapon) to be taken away from one's possession until after one's death. A variant, from my cold dead fingers, is most often used in the US by gun rights advocates
- leave for dead
- to abandon someone, assuming that they will die
When Steele rides after them, they shoot him and leave him for dead in the desert.
- left for dead
- Simple past tense and past participle of leave for dead
- living dead
- The undead; zombies
- not be caught dead
- To refuse completely to do something
I would not be caught dead in such a skimpy dress.
- over my dead body
- Under no circumstances; absolutely not
Mom: Over my dead body!.
- play dead
- to lie very still, as would a corpse
- play dead
- to act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack
- sit dead-red
- When a batter is looking for a four-seam fastball. Popularized by broadcaster and former player Joe Morgan
If I were him, I would sit dead-red on this 3 and 1 pitch and try to launch one.
- stone dead
- Utterly dead
- stop dead
- to stop suddenly
- top dead center
- A position in the four-stroke combustion process wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. This can either be during the compression phase or the combustion phase
- top dead center
- The reference mark on a flywheel (and engine block) indicating the engine is in the top dead center position, when aligned
- dead-heat
- a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner
- drop-dead
- extremely; "she was drop-dead gorgeous
- better off dead
- (Ev ile ilgili) 1. Ususally implying that someone is a useless piece of crap. 2. Situation where there is no upside, therefore the only way out is to commit suicide and/or, be killed. 3. Suggests pain will not yield, and only escape is death
- dead
- {n} stillness, quietness, silence, gloom, depth
- dead
- {a} deprived of life, cold, dull, tasteless, lost
- dead
- {v} to weaken, to make tasteless
- Day of the Dead
- November 1 and November 2 collectively, celebrated concurrently with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day in Mexico and parts of Central America in commemoration of the dead. Also called Día de los Muertos
- be caught dead
- (deyim) (catch dead) Find or see at any time ― used in strongly negative constructions . "He wouldn't be caught dead in that shirt."
- beat a dead horse
- (deyim) Waste time on something that is a lost cause or likely to be unproductive, flog a dead horse [Brit]
- catch dead
- (deyim) (catch dead) Find or see at any time ― used in strongly negative constructions . "He wouldn't be caught dead in that shirt."
- flog a dead horse
- (deyim) Waste time on something that is a lost cause or likely to be unproductive, beat a dead horse [Amer.]
- knock dead
- (deyim) Move strongly especially to admiration or applause: "a comedian who really knocks them dead"
- over my dead body
- (deyim) Used to express strong opposition
